Only in Texas would a university put together a spreadsheet showing how much money each professor is making for, or costing the university. Times, they are a' changing in academia... and it looks like someone with similarly jaded views turned them into a movie.

Speaking of metrics, Academic Productivity has a great piece on new alt-metrics for measuring, well, academic productivity.

And the extent to which Google tools can inform peer review can be found here.

Oliver Sacks has just released a new book on vision. Hear his interview on NPR's Fresh Air. See also the review in Nature. I can't wait to get my hands on this book!